THE PUBLIC SERVICE
The question is being asked among sections of the Public Service (states the Evening Post) why the three Service Departments should have to work much overtime each day, and should also have to work every Saturday and on Sundays, while other departments; cease work at 4-30 p.m. each day* anddo not work on Saturdays. A Short statement on this subject has been made by the Public Service Commissioner (Mr J. H. Boyes). According to this statement, the question of hours depends on the amount of work being done and the staff available to do it. Put in another way, the Public Service Commissioner, .explained, ". hour» ; in the- Public Service ate.-now: simply? fixed- according to of. the different pjfrtments which were doing war worky he said, were now working a six-day week, but no general policy had been defined.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24950, 24 June 1942, Page 4
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